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Malevolence

Posted on June 2, 2001

What is Malevolence?

Malevolence is a simple application created by Marukka which extracts login/password information from the system in a unshadowed format. It has been discovered there a numerous ways to obtain the passwd information from netinfo including simply typing the command command “nidump passwd .”

Once you have the encrypted password file it may be decrypted with a method refered to as cracking or using a bruteforce attack.

Directions

Malevolence is very easy to use, in either Terminal.app or though a telnet session just run Malevolence and it will create a file called “index.html” in the same directory as Malevolence. Then just open up the web browser of your choosing and view the index.html file that Malevolence created.